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Offical Silphium Abuser
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Southeast Ohio
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Great photos, turttle! I wasn't able to get any pictures (I'm WAY too slow), but while we were on the Space Coast over the holidays, there were ospreys everywhere. I literally lost count.
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WG Hospitality & UAOKA recipient
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Pennsylvania
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Nice close ups. I take quite a few photos of birds through not so clean windows too...most leave me happy with the results.
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#183 |
Curious George & UAOKA recipient
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Chapel Hill, NC
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Thanks! I had thought the grey capped red breasted woodpeckers were juveniles til I spent extra time with my field guide and realized they are females. I really need to clean the window, though...
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Heron
Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: Minnesota
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#185 |
Curious George & UAOKA recipient
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Chapel Hill, NC
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About five feet, and I was sitting about five feet from the window in my favorite bird watching seat.
My elusive unknown bird continues to taunt me, leaving the second I move to get the camera and not returning. One of these days I will gets a mug shot of it!
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There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, this is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar. - Lord Byron Turttle's pollinator garden |
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#186 |
Curious George & UAOKA recipient
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Chapel Hill, NC
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I saw these in October on Little St Simons Island, GA, but never got around to posting them. Painted buntings...
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There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, this is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar. - Lord Byron Turttle's pollinator garden |
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#187 |
POM Judge & Official Non Gardener
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Buffalo, NY, USA
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#188 |
Curious George & UAOKA recipient
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Chapel Hill, NC
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Beautiful, Sage! I have never seen a pheasant. I heard once that they were introduced from Europe as game birds. Is that true? Even if, they are worth having for their beauty!
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There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, this is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar. - Lord Byron Turttle's pollinator garden |
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#189 |
Heron
Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: powell,Ohio
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Ring necked pheasants were introduced from china over many introductions as a game bird. The first were actually a gift from the Chinese embassy to Thomas Jefferson if I remember correctly. They are well established in the grain belt Iowa, North, and South Dakota but most states rasie and stock them as a put a take resource. They origanally thrived east of the Mississippi in agricultural areas but the use of large scale row crops and the loss of hedgerows have cut down on there survival.
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#190 |
WG Hospitality & UAOKA recipient
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Pennsylvania
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